[ofa-general] [PATCH V3] infiniband/core: Enable loopback ofDRSMP responses from userspace

Hal Rosenstock hrosenstock at xsigo.com
Fri Oct 19 09:58:29 PDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 09:26 -0700, Ralph Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 09:19 -0700, Sean Hefty wrote:
> > > This looks like it could be a problem, but it is not directly
> > > related to the original patch; i.e. loop back of a DR SMP
> > > response being sent from userspace.
> > > 
> > > I think you could probably combine the routines as you suggest
> > > or call them both as is done to solve the original problem.
> > > If you want to combine this change with the original patch
> > > to make a more uniform change across both problems that
> > > would be fine with me.  Hal, Sean, do you have an opinion?
> > 
> > I think Hal pointed this out, but the mad layer doesn't currently 
> > support mixing DR and LID routed SMPs.  I would like patches to add/fix 
> > that to be separate.
> > 
> > - Sean
> 
> I agree.  I just wanted to review the original patch enough to be
> sure I understood the limitations. Now that my memory of DR SMPs
> is refreshed, if one of us resubmits the V3 patch plus the ipath
> change plus the extended description, I will ACK it.

Yes, Steve should resubmit the V3 patch updated with the extended
description. I think your patch to eliminate the unneeded if clause can
be a separate patch (and I acked that already).

Is that what you mean by the ipath change ? Is there something else
right now ?

-- Hal

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